Thirty three Christian ministers, among them the heads of three Christian denominations and eight Bishops, have requested the United States to introduce a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Egypt’s new racist policy and seeking UN action “to end the persecution of Jews in Egypt as a violation of the Charter of Human Rights.”
This request was in the form of an open letter to President Eisenhower which described “the present Egyptian program directed against the human rights, security, freedom, and economic welfare of Egyptian Jews and Jews in Egypt” as “clearly imitative of the Hitler pattern and of the present Communist pattern in Hungary.”
It declared that what is happening to the Jews of Egypt “can neither be excused nor explained by the military conflict between the governments of these two nations. It reminded the President that when Hitler first began to rage “there was a woeful teoldration of the evil of his teachings by people in this country” and “that than, too, the Jews were the first targets of the attack on human dignity and freedom.” The letter warned that “unless the United States opposes firmly and immediately the reappearance of racism in Egypt, in whatever guise, this pernicious evil-will endanger the spiritual foundation of morality and freedom in all the world.”
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